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Laura Gehreke; Hannes Schilling; Simone Kauffeld – Review of Education, 2024
Peer mentoring is a widely employed strategy in higher education to foster student development and integration. However, the effectiveness of peer mentoring in higher education lacks well-established statements. A systematic review was conducted to assess the efficacy of peer mentoring during the initial phase of academic studies. This review…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Mentors, Program Effectiveness, Dropouts
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Sherkat, Anoosheh; Chenari, Alireza – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
The main research problem in this paper is assessing the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education in the universities of Tehran province. By considering entrepreneurship intentionality as an indicator of the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education, for the first time, the impact of entrepreneurship curriculum, entrepreneurship education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration Education
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LaTanya L. Dixon; Suzanne M. Dugger; Hsien-Yuan Hsu – Educational Forum, 2024
This study employed design-based logistic regression to examine the extent to which attending a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) magnet high school, school demographics, and student-level factors explain a student's intent to declare a STEM major in the first semester of college. The results show only student-level factors…
Descriptors: Magnet Schools, High School Students, Intention, Majors (Students)
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Cascante-Campos, Alejandro – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
The article presents the results of a regional study analysing the factors that predict Latin American faculty adoption and use of geospatial technologies (GST) for teaching geography. The research involved an online survey with 337 participants from 17 countries, who answered a set of items adapted from the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Geography Instruction, Geographic Information Systems
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Jardim, Jacinto; Bártolo, Ana; Pinho, Andreia – Education Sciences, 2021
The number of entrepreneurship education programs (EEP) has increased exponentially over the past two decades. However, a systematic review has not yet been carried out to confirm the effectiveness of EEPs and their presence in the current global world. The main objective of this study was to provide a systematic synthesis of EEP, exploring their…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Educational Research
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Nguyen Thi Thao Ho; Muhammad Ridhuan Tony Lim Abdullah; Hairuzila Bt Idrus; Subarna Sivapalan; Hiep-Hung Pham; Viet-Hung Dinh; Huyen Khanh Pham; Linh Thi My Nguyen – SAGE Open, 2023
This triangulation mixed methods study employed the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to investigate the factors affecting continuance intention toward Coursera MOOCs blended learning (CMBL) with undergraduate students at a Vietnamese private higher education institution (HEI). IBM AMOS version 24 was employed, with which Confirmatory Factor…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Educational Technology, Blended Learning, Higher Education
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Hardie, Bethany; Highfield, Camilla; Lee, Kerry – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2020
Society requires education to prepare students with the tools and ability to navigate and find success for unknown futures. Entrepreneurship education has the potential to deliver the relevant curriculum and competencies to support young people to develop resilience, independence, innovation and ability to recognise opportunities to live…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Business Administration Education, Business Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Yee, Jennifer A.; Tong, Kasandra; Tao, Mitchell; Le, Quyen; Le, Vy; Doan, Phong; Villanueva, Anthony – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2021
ASAM 230--Civic Engagement Through Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Studies is a critical service learning course that effects social change by fostering students' leadership, activism, and professional aspirations. Our team (a professor and six alumni, some of whom became community partners) conducted a longitudinal, autoethnographic…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Activism, Social Change, Service Learning
Dixon, LaTanya L.; Dugger, Suzanne M.; Hsu, Hsien-Yuan – Grantee Submission, 2020
This study employed design-based logistic regression to examine the extent to which attending a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) magnet high school, school demographics, and student-level factors explain racial/ethnic differences in a student's intent to declare a STEM major in the first semester of college. Data were drawn…
Descriptors: Magnet Schools, High School Students, Intention, Majors (Students)
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Pozón-López, I.; Kalinic, Zoran; Higueras-Castillo, Elena; Liébana-Cabanillas, Francisco – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
The purpose of this study is to classify the predictors of satisfaction and intention to use in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Informed by a scientific literature review, this work poses a behavioral model to explain intention to use via various constructs. To this end, the authors have carried out a study through an online survey of Spanish…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Predictor Variables, Student Satisfaction
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Torcivia Prusko, Patrice; Robinson, Heather; Kilgore, Whitney; Al-Freih, Maha – Online Learning, 2020
The purpose of this research study is to shift the focus on Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) research by changing the narrative surrounding MOOC effectiveness from issues of course completion and certification to the impact of these courses on participants' actual practices. The "Humanizing Online Teaching and Learning" or HumanMOOC was…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Hussein, Mahmood H.; Ow, Siew Hock; Ibrahim, Ishaq; Mahmoud, Moamin A. – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2021
Purpose: The use of learning management systems (LMSs) such as Google Classroom has increased significantly in higher education institutes during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, only a few studies have investigated instructors' continued intention to reuse LMS. The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that influence instructors'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Technology
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Herman, Emilia; Stefanescu, Daniela – Educational Studies, 2017
This paper approaches the issue of higher entrepreneurship education in motivating young people to start their own business as a viable alternative to the successful integration of university graduates on the labour market. The fundamental question of this research is if, currently, entrepreneurship education influences students' entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Stimulation, Entrepreneurship, Engineering
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Foreman, Emma; Perry, Carolyn; Wheeler, Amanda – Open Review of Educational Research, 2015
The community-managed mental health sector is facing a crisis. Funding is less certain, demand for services is increasing, and retaining a skilled and competent workforce is proving a challenge. In order to respond to this workforce crisis a literature review was conducted on the effectiveness of higher education scholarship programmes, as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Scholarships, Labor Turnover
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Dooris, Michael J.; Kelley, John M.; Trainer, James F. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2004
The authors present an overview of strategic planning, examine its history and mystique, and conclude that planning, if properly implemented, can have a powerful impact on advancing and transforming colleges and universities. (Contains 1 note.)
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Intellectual History, Intention